CNN’s Brian Stelter was embarrassed recently at a “Disinformation” conference by a college freshman who slammed CNN’s coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop, Jussie Smollett, Nick Sandmann, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Student Christopher Phillips told Stelter “You’ve all spoken extensively about Fox News being a purveyor of disinformation. But CNN is right up there with them.”
“They pushed the Russian collusion hoax, they pushed the Jussie Smollett hoax, they smeared Justice Kavanaugh as a rapist, and they also smeared Nick Sandmann as a white supremacist, and yes, they dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop affair as pure Russian disinformation,” Phillips explained.
Phillips then asked, “With mainstream corporate journalists becoming little more than apologists and cheerleaders for the regime, is it time to finally declare that the canon of journalistic ethics is dead or no longer operative?”
“Why do all of the mistakes of the mainstream media, and CNN in particular, seem to magically all go in one direction. Are we expected to believe that this is all just some sort of random coincidence or is there something else behind it?” Phillips wondered additionally.
Stelter initially tried to dismiss Phillips by suggesting it was “time for lunch,” but when told he had 30 seconds, he claimed that Phillips was “describing a different channel than the one that I watch.”
“I understand that is a popular right-wing narrative about CNN,” Stelter scoffed.
Stelter then tried to put a positive spin on things by pointing out how reporters assisted an injured Fox News reporter in Ukraine.
“When people don’t hear, they imagine it is a situation it’s not, but I think, your question, it speaks to the failure of journalism and how the profession operates. We have a lot of work to do, I think,” Stelter admitted.
And his pathetic response, @BrianStelter claims those facts are just a “popular right-wing narrative about CNN.”
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 7, 2022
Of course, he was more interested in running out of the panel to go get lunch.
- Kayleigh McEnany Marvels At Donald Trump McDonald’s Campaign Stop, ‘The Best Retail Politics I Have Ever Seen’ - October 21, 2024
- Kayleigh McEnany Scorches ABC Anchors For Choosing to Be ‘Partisan Activists’ Rather Than Debate Moderators - September 11, 2024
- Tim Kaine Provides Cover For Joe Biden on the Border Crisis, Blames Lack of a ‘Robust Work Visa Program’ for ‘Some of the Chaos at the Border’ - March 27, 2024
3 Comments